This hands-on training course focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vCenter Configuration Manager™ 5.7. The course is built on VMware ESXi™ and VMware vCenter Server™. This course provides you with the knowledge and skills to install and configure vCenter Configuration Manager, navigate the user interface, manage compliance, and perform administrative and configuration tasks against your infrastructure.

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

Install vCenter Configuration Manager

Configure vCenter Configuration Manager for use with these virtual machines and services:

Windows, UNIX, Linux, and Mac OS X virtual machines

Active Directory directory services

vCenter Server systems and ESXi hosts

Use vCenter Configuration Manager to access and apply to compliance tool kits that cover a broad range of standards, including security best practices, vendor hardening guidelines, and regulatory mandates

Use vCenter Configuration Manager to create configuration baselines and assess managed systems against those baselines

Use vCenter Configuration Manager to remediate managed systems that are out of compliance

Use vCenter Configuration Manager to automatically manage and deploy vendor and software patches

Use vCenter Configuration Manager to support infrastructure hardening through deep configuration data collection and change tracking